Join jazz aficionado Don Shor as he explores the diverse and fascinating world of jazz. Jazz After Dark spans the gamut, from roots in boogie-woogie, blues, and ragtime through traditional and straight-ahead jazz, soul jazz, bossa nova, and more.
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Jazz After Dark, Oct. 11, 2022Tue, 10/11/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorOn tonight’s broadcast, swing era and the 1950s: Cab Calloway, Fats Waller with Jack Teagarden & Eddie Condon, Louis Armstrong, Quintette du Hot Club de France, Sammy Price And His Bluesicians, Ella Fitzgerald, Shorty Rogers, Oscar Peterson, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Wilkins And His Orchestra, Bobby Hackett, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. |
Jazz After Dark, Oct. 4, 2022Tue, 10/04/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, the Charlie Parker Quintet, the John Kirby Sextet, Nat "King" Cole, Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra, Stan Kenton, Stan Getz with Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper and Conte Candoli, Stanley Turrentine, Al Hirt, Eddie Jefferson, Ellis Marsalis, and the Fraser Macpherson Quartet. |
Jazz After Dark, Sept. 27, 2022Tue, 09/27/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorToday, from the 1940s and 50s, we have Nat King Cole, Sonny Stitt, Herbie Nichols, Ella Fitzgerald & the Oscar Peterson Trio, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The selections from the 1960s are performed by Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Earl "Fatha" Hines & Johnny Hodges, and Claude Bolling. Then we’ll hear from Pedro Iturralde with Donna Hightower, Charlie Byrd and The Washington Guitar Quintet, Milt Buckner, and Houston Person. |
Jazz After Dark, Sept. 20, 2022Tue, 09/20/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorOn this episode: From the 1920s and 30s we’ll hear Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra, Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet, and Coleman Hawkins. Then we move to the '40s and '50s with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Modern Jazz Quartet, Sarah Vaughan, Miles Davis, and Mose Allison, and then we’ll take it out with Weather Report, and Cal Tjader, from the 1970s. |
Jazz After Dark, Sept. 13, 2022Tue, 09/13/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: From 1955-1963 we'll hear Kai Winding with J.J. Johnson, Bobby Hackett, John Lewis, Erroll Garner, Chet Baker, Gigi Gryce Quartet, Miles Davis, Elek Bacsik, McCoy Tyner, and Art Blakey. Then we'll hear 1980s performances by Archie Shepp with Horace Parlan, and Butch Thompson. |
Jazz After Dark, Sept. 6, 2022Tue, 09/06/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight: Quintetto Ritmico di Milano, Italian jazz from the 1940s; then 1957 to 1965 with Teddy Wilson, Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Art Pepper, Carmen McRae, Oscar Peterson, and Chico Hamilton; and then we take it out with a late-career pairing of the Dave Brubeck Quartet with Jim Hall in 2007. |
Jazz After Dark, Aug. 30, 2022Tue, 08/30/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorWe have selections from 1937 to 1973 tonight. We’ll hear Artie Shaw, Coleman Hawkins Orchestra, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Django Reinhardt, Billie Holiday & Lester Young, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis Sextet, Modern Jazz Quartet, John Coltrane Quartet, Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz, and James Moody. |
Jazz After Dark, Aug. 23, 2022Tue, 08/23/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight we’ll hear from: Artie Shaw And His Orchestra, Dinah Washington, Lee Morgan, Erroll Garner, Paul Gonsalves, Stephane Grappelli, Elek Bacsik, Art Blakey, Lou Donaldson, Pat La Barbera & Don Thompson, and Butch Thompson. |
Jazz After Dark, Aug. 16, 2022Tue, 08/16/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: Swing and more. We’ll hear from Count Basie, Benny Goodman, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Erskine Hawkins, John Kirby Sextet, Lou Donaldson, Gerry Mulligan, Ernie Wilkins And His Orchestra, Art Blakey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dick Wellstood. |
Jazz After Dark, Aug. 9, 2022Tue, 08/09/2022 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight on Jazz After Dark: we feature Sonny Stitt, Benny Carter, and Duke Ellington, plus vocals by Peggy Lee. |
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Mr. Shor,
Would you be able to announce on "Jazz After Dark" a local, Davis, FREE live-jazz monthly, community event
called, "Davis Jazz Night." At the John Natsoulas Art Gallery 521 1St. downtown Davis. 700:-9:00
monthly, EVERY last Friday. Always hosted by a Davis semi-pro community 12-piece jazz band called "The New Harmony Jazz Band." Thank you.
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